How hot can the lava get?
It depends on the lava but basically anywhere between 8-900° C to 12-1300° C and I’d have to make the conversion. Right off the top of my head, it’s probably around 2000-2300° F. Pretty hot. The temperature of the lava depends on its chemistry and it’s kind of an interesting point. I didn’t talk about it because I didn’t have all that much time but different types of lava will cause different types of volcanoes and different types of eruptions. I’ll quickly give two types of examples. One example would be Hawaii and I’m sure you’ve all heard about Mt. Kilauea and all those volcanoes in Hawaii. Those tend to be the kind that have very fluid lava and very hot lava. It will definitely get to 1200-1250° C. They’ll flow lava very fluidly but they don’t tend to have large explosions – mostly like I showed, lava fountaining earlier in the movie. Those kinds of eruptions.
